The Gurudwara Dukh
Nivaran Sahib is situated in what used to be the
village of Lehal, now Patiala city. According to
local tradition, supported by an old handwritten
document preserved in the Gurudwara, Bhag Ram, a
Jhivar of Lehal, waited upon Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji
during his sojourn at Saifabad(now Bahadurgarh) and
made a request that he might be pleased to visit and
bless his village so that its in inhabitants could
be rid of a serious and mysterious sickness which
had seen their bane for a long time. The Guru
visited Lehal on Magh Sudi 5, 1728, Bikram 0n 24th
January 1672 and stayed under a banyan tree of a
pond. The sickness in the village subsided. The side
where Guru Tegh Bahadur had sat came to be known as
Dukh Nivaran, literally meaning eradicator of
suffering. The Gurudwara when completed passed under
the administrative control of the Patiala state
government. But it eventually transferred to the
Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee. The two-
storey has a collapsible Iron Gate and black and
white marble floor. The pinnacled lotus dome on top
has a round sun- window on each side with a curved
coping, projected horizontally at the ends. The
ceiling is decorated with Stucco work in floral-
design. The 75 metre square sarovar, since
considerably extended is on the right and Guru Ka
Langar on the left as one enters. A big gathering is
held on the fifth day of the light half of each
lunar month.

Gurudwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib

Kiran Preet Kaur
9th, Senior Secondary Model
School

SHRI KALI DEVI TEMPLE

The Kali Devi Temple
devoted to the deity Durga, is one of the holiest
places of reverence for the Hindus in Punjab the eye
catching architecture pattern of this pattern of
this temple makes this place the main attraction of
the people who visit the town of Patiala. The royal
family of Patiala constructed this architectural
monument which is now a significant shrine of city’s
history. The serene surroundings of the Kali Devi
Temple endow with eternal peace the souls and minds
of the people who visit this place. One can witness
the traditional rites and rituals that are performed
at this temple which are slowly fading away with the
modern times. This time strictly follows the
traditional rituals and customs of the past and
encourages the disciples and devotees to follow the
same path. The sacred Kali Devi Temple houses the
illustrations of the bygone era. The walls of the
temples are adorned with splendid sceneries and
skillful mural paintings, ornamenting this holy
place. This temple was built by Maharaja Bhupinder
Singh. He brought a 6feet large statue of Kali from
Bengal to Patiala in 1936. Maharaja Bhupinder Singh
offered his first Bali of a Water Buffalo. A huge
tombstone of Kali is placed inside the temple. This
temple is a real witness of old customs. The temple
has some Sanskrit Patras. It is believed Ved Vyasa
is the writer of these scripts. This large complex
attracts Hindu and Sikh devotees from distant
places. As an average estimate, devotees offer more
han 60,000 liquor bottles during Navaratras alone
and this liquor goes into a Sharab Kund. Anyone who
makes his or her presence before Kali Devi here with
pure heart and soul gets her kind blessings
immediately